Relationships In The Kite Runner

Afghanistan has been struck with great devastation throughout the past couple decades. It is clear to anyone who watches the news, and pays attention to world issues that the troubles these people have had to face, through extremist groups controlling their country, have been life altering. A situation that Canadians have been honoured to have never understood. Author Khaled Hosseini, displays a new perspective in this novel, which describes the upmost issues which Afghans’ were forced to deal with and the difficult realities which they seem to face.
In The Kite Runner, Hosseini displays the unique relationships between father and son, upper and lower class, and ethnic diversity to notion love and sacrifice, or lack thereof, for the greater needs of the supported individual. These relationships are portrayed and surrounded by narrator, Amir who describes his life journey through the cold years of Afghanistan.
Amir’s entire life is instantly altered through his lack of sacrifice for Hassan, when he is brutally raped by protagonist Assef. The reason that Amir doesn’t stand up for his best friend is ironically resulting from his need for his father’s approval, because of the lacking relationship which they seem to share. Amir seems to win Baba’s
Often times, people are tested in these difficult situations and fail to show the loyalty which they should. In The Kite Runner, both scenarios are true towards narrator Amir, and the people important in his journey. Baba mentions to Amir as they get to America that “it may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime” (150). Author Khaled Hosseini often proves this through these relationships, that these decisions in the moment, can show sacrifice and notion love for a greater